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August 20, 2010
UFCW marches for justice in The Dalles • Pelosi touts retrofit program
as stimulus success • SEIU's new leader warns of 'coordinated attack'
on public workers • Oregon Working Families Party runs Senate candidate
• I-5 Bridge Sponsors Council favors 10-lane span • Fate of
Portland's 'voter-owned elections' in hands of voters • Washington
State Labor Council issues new set of endorsements • Holliday re-elected
business manager of Operating Engineers Local 701
August
6, 2010
Decision nears over closure of PGE Boardman coal plant • Casino
supporters say valid signatures were tossed; judge agrees to hearing •
City draws road map for new marine terminal • Unions weigh in on
Washington primary races • City of Portland tries to pry concessions
from workers, including overtime • Leupold & Stevens worker
gets back pay, but firing chills Machinists campaign • ATU Local
757 contract at TriMet likely to be determined by arbitrator • Endorsements:
AFL endorses Schrader • AFSCME backs Hughes; SEIU for Kitzhaber
• Davis re-elected business manager of IBEW Local 48 • Carpenter
starts union homebuilder business
July
16, 2010
Portland postal workers rally to save Saturday delivery • Daimler
Trucks drops wage cut demands, signs new three-year contracts •
Union pension plans get more time to recover under newly-passed law •
Common, and illegal: Rules that ban coworker wage discussions break labor
law • Senator Ron Wyden: Bush agenda may resurface if labor sits
out election • Oregon delegates take part in momentous AFSCME convention
• Musicians Local 99's Fife elected international VP • Burns
named director of Labor's Community Service Agency
July
2, 2010
AFSCME crew spend furlough day cleaning up river trash • Heintzman
tapped as president of ATU international union • Trained home energy
workers waiting for jobs • Food service workers at Convention Center
authorize strike against Aramark • NLRB seeks injunction against
BrucePac • This just in: DOL wins back pay for Umatilla workers,
six months ago • UFCW Local 555 to hold job actions at Fred Meyer
stores • Safeway plant sanitors join Bakers Union • AFL-CIO
leaders get earful at first-ever youth summit • Hughes, Smith pick
up union endorsements • AFL-CIO's Shepard exits Metro race
June
18, 2010
Transit Union Local 757 sounds alarm to 'Save Our Ride' • Building
trades unions squawk at Ducks' no-bid contracting • WSLC-backed
Pridemore quits congressional race • Postal unions oppose move to
eliminate Saturday mail service • SEIU Local 503 director Frane
takes DC job for SEIU international • Motorcycle poker run raises
$50,000
June
4, 2010
Primary results: Kitzhaber vs Dudley for Oregon governor • State
faces more budget woes • Building trades collecting signatures for
private casino • Stimulus funds will help Portland schools with
'green' retrofits • ATU Local 757 files harassment complaints against
Bend Area Transit contractor • BrucePac appeals order to reinstate
fired union supporters • Convention Center servers cry foul as Aramark
pockets their tips • Reliant Elevator acquired by Kone • Opposition
to Arizona's immigration enforcement law continues to grow
May
21, 2010
Laborers take BrucePac dispute to next stage • Union pension funds
face slow-motion crisis • Will Congress come to the rescue of multiemployer
pension funds? • Oregon's Worker Freedom Act survives court challenge
• Building trades back bid for private casino • Two proposed
construction projects in Oregon shelved • Five unfair labor practic
complaints filed against Portland French School • Glass Workers
139B wages one-week strike at Vancouver Iron & Steel • Flute
Fandango wants to set Guinness record • Pridemore nabs AFL-CIO endorsement
for Congress • Nesbitt to be governor's chief of staff • Springfield
Roofers merge with Local 49 of Portland • Glenn Shuck retires
May
7, 2010
Historic workers comp reform reaches milestone • Labor-friendly
Democrats square off in governor's race • NLRB rules BrucePac firings
broke federal law • Building trades' Mohlis to recuse himself from
vote on PDC office lease • Portland-based Carpenters Local 247 placed
under supervision • Washington legislative session a mixed bag for
labor • Machinists endorse Castillo, Wu, Holvey, Riggs-Henson
April
16, 2010
Judge expresses doubts about Worker Freedom lawsuit • Health insurance
reform: How will it affect union members? • Iron Workers 'top out'
new Kaiser Medical Center • Working Families Party aims to ramp
up in 2010 • Unions to remember fallen workers at memorial service
in Salem April 28 • Ergonomic regulation reform put on the back
burner • Senator Murray: I-5 bridge decision must be made quickly
• Senator Cantwell: Jobs are priority number one • Clark County
Clerk Parker announces re-election bid
April
2, 2010
Federal judge to hear challenge to Oregon's Worker Freedom Act •
Unions protest Postal Service plan to eliminate Saturday mail service
• Congress passes massive health insurance reform • Details
of BrucePac anti-union campaign come out in lawsuit • Steelworkers
in McMinnville give up raise to extend contract • Wealthy will pay
more if Bush tax cuts expire in 2010 as scheduled • More endorsements
from organized labor: City, County, and governor
March
19, 2010
Walmart tops list of Oregon businesses with employees receiving public
assistance • Congress nears vote on health insurance reform bill
• Trumka calls new jobs bill 'a Band-Aid on an amputated limb'•
NLRB grinds to a halt as U.S. Senate fails to confirm • Joblessness
worse than stats reveal • Candidates pick up labor endorsements
for May primary • Lane County Labor Council's Pat Riggs-Henson retires
March
5, 2010
Delivery after dark: Shortstaffing forces letter carriers to deliver at
night • Stimulus act, one year later: Q&A with Oregon Congressman
Peter DeFazio • Labor counts successes and setbacks in Oregon Legislature
special session • Congressman Schrader says he supports NAFTA-style
trade deal with South Korea • Piedmont Post Office dedicated in
honor of Martin Luther King Jr. • NOLC backs incumbents; AFSCME
88 issues endorsements in County races; Carpenters go for Kitzhaber •
Portland school teachers reach tentative contract •Marion Polk Yamhill
Labor Council and Clark Skamania West Klickitat Labor Council install
new officers
February
19, 2010
Oregon construction workers demand jobs legislation • Senate abuse
of filibuster hobbles union-backed legislation • Union tracking
jobs bills in Washington Legislature • Attorney general seeks labor's
help cracking down on underground economy • Exterior/Interior specialists
ratify new contract • Vote makes it final: Laurelhurst Village will
be a union nursing home • Portland school teachers reach tentative
contract • Bargaining opens between DCTU, City of Portland •
CWA Local 7901's Linda Rasmussen hangs it up
February
5, 2010
Tax increases on wealthy and corporations win in landslide • A labor
'look back' over Obama's first year in office • Labor's message
to lawmakers: Good Jobs, Now! • UFCW Local 555 ratifies Portland
grocery pacts • Portland parking meter techs win fight against outsourcing
• Soccer stadium deal comes with union neutrality and living wage
commitments • Housing Authority to import windows for apartment
weatherization project • Labor bills in the mix as lawmakers return
to Salem • Honduran union leaders tells of labor's struggle against
coup • Airport screeners in nationwide campaign to unionize •
Attorney general tells Labor Law crowd he will fight to defend Worker
Freedom Act • PGE proposes to change — or close — Boardman
coal plant • Kitzhaber picks up more union endorsements •
Driving in Oregon? Keep your hands off your phone • Electrical Workers
Minority Caucus meets, and volunteers, in Portland • Laborers' Gary
Moore re-elected to Portland Metal Trades Council post
January
15, 2010
Portland-area UFCW members dropped from Kaiser Permanente coverage •
Opponents prefer to glide past facts of tax increase measures 66 and 67
• Umatilla demilitarization workers get $3.7 million back pay •
After 18 months, Portland Public School teachers still without contract
• More Steelworkers laid off at Cascade Steel • Merkley amendment
to health reform bill levels construction playing field • Daimler
gets $40 million to develop fuel-efficient trucks • Sheet Metal
Training Center gets piece of $5 million ARRA grant
January
1, 2010
Ballot measures 66 and 67: Taxing the top tier • Year in review:
2009 in organized labor • Lying by numbers • U.S. Chamber
of Commerce sues to halt Worker Freedom Act
December
18, 2009
Labor in the room at Copenhagen climate talks • Pressure mounts
for further government action on jobs • Nurses unions merge •
How to shop union this holiday season • Carhartt discontinues 'Made
in USA' apparel program • Trade justice campaign continues •
Oregon AFL-CIO makes earlly legislative endorsements • AFSCME's
Pat Riggs-Henson seeks Lane County board seat • Jaimie Sorenson
sworn in as new president of AFSCME Local 328 • Jim Cook elected
president of NALC Branch 82 • Slow economy doesn't dampen union
member giving • B.U.L.L. Session raises $311,000 for kids' charities
December
4, 2009
Congress closes in on health care reform • BrucePac faces NLRB charges
in mass firing of pro-union workers • Laurelhurst nursing home now
a union shop • Portland renews use of prison labor in parks •
Bill and Cindy Sizemore indicted for tax evasion • 'Next Waver'
Hanna installed as president of AFSCME Local 88 • After 40+ years,
secretary says goodbye to Machinists Union
November
20, 2009
WTO, 10 years later • Umatilla chemical depot workers to get $3.6
million back pay • Labor reacts to Washington election results •
Geek Squad union eleciton cancelled
November
6, 2009
Tensions escalate at Fred Meyer stores • Boeing rejects Machinists
'no strike' offer • Wages down in two new Carpenters contracts •
Fire at SEIU Local 49 headquarters being investigated as arson •
Teachers unions file lawsuit against Bill Sizemore and Loren Parks •
Geek Squad workers in fight for right to join IBEW Local 48 • Murder
tale brings Northwest labor history back to life • Pete Savage resigns
from Regional Council of Carpenters • AFSCME Local 88 president
won't seek re-election • LNG-motivated recall vote held in Clatsop
County • Oregon AFL-CIO: Labor must target younger workers; state
fed rates state lawmakers
October
16, 2009
Portland City Council gets earful from AFSCME • Boeing uses jobs
to pressure government and union for concessions • Union members,
cardiac resuscitation device, help save a life • Vancouver area
labor council issues general election endorsements • IBEW 48 health
trust may drop Fred Meyer as prescription drug manager • Dorothy
Lyman clocks out after 31 years at Iron Workers Local 516 • Union
volunteers help in campaign to quash Washington tax initiative
October
2, 2009
Daimler changes its mind: Portland Freightliner plant won't close for
now • Business groups force vote on tax hike on corporations and
the rich • New Portland ordinance will help construction unions
get into residential 'green' jobs • Portland in line for 'Emerald
City' green jobs pilot program • AFT's Lincoln pursues potential
House vacancy • Multi-employer pension plans still not out of woods
• Joblessness continues to rise • Plans scrapped for Oregon
Convention Center hotel
September
18, 2009
Kitzhaber gets early labor backing • Youth movement: Labor ponders
how to bring in the young • LERC professor Lafer will advise U.S.
House labor panel • Commissioners in Clatsop County face recall
effort for supporting LNG plant • Workers at Oregon University System
reach agreement on two-year contract • Steelworkers Union organizes
recycling firm • UNITE HERE Local 9 workers hit by Portland Hilton
closures • SEIU's Crider leaves organized labor • Portland
Labor Day picnic draws crowd of elected leaders • Group wants to
revitalize construction partnership
September
4, 2009
Straight talk on the proposed health reform • Health care reform:
Where do Oregon lawmakers stand? • Operating Engineers Local 701
and Carpenters form alliance • Oregon AFL-CIO's Shepard runs for
open Metro board seat • Steelworker elected to lead Northwest Oregon
Labor Council • Clark Skamania Klickitat CLC endorsed candidates
advance to November election • Hundreds rally in Portland to support
health insurance reform
August
21, 2009
Washington AFL-CIO delegates say 'no more business as usual' • Oregon
construction unions worried about outlook for work • Management
raises at Multnomah County irk AFSCME Local 88 • Members of Laborers
320 ratify first deal with Oregon Child Development Coalition
August
7, 2009
Fred Meyer goes green? • Stimulus dollars trickle slowly to local
union workforce, if at all • Employee Free Choice Act still on track,
but delayed • Washington AFL-CIO proposes to overhaul its approach
to politics • Washington State Labor Council ranks state lawmakers
• Nursing home pays cash settlement to fired pro-union receptionist
• Steelworkers Local 8378 protests as Cascade Steel cancels recall
• Hazardous work motivates IBEW commitment to Burn Center •
Public employees' shared sacrifice leads to tentative deal at State of
Oregon • AFSCME 328 reaches new contract at OHSU • City of
Portland unions demand to bargain over layoffs, reorganizing at BDS •
Labor Council in Vancouver makes picks for August primary election •
Tackett nominated to take helm at labor council • Longtime Bakers
Local 14 rep Gene Beaudoin to retire; Shad Clark hired
July
17, 2009
New streetcars union-made in America • Proposal to put Fred Meyer
on Unfair List is tabled • WSLC convention expected to rethink relationship
to Democrats • AFT trustees Kaiser nurses Local 5017 • OPEIU
Local 11 members at NW Natural ratify pact • Working Families Party
helps pass bill to start 'fusion voting' • For some union-backed
bills in the Oregon Legislature – better luck next time •
Governor signs Oregon AFL-CIO's top-priority bill • Former Oregonian
runs for number-two national AFL-CIO office • IBEW 280 votes Frew
business manager
July
3, 2009
Labor's agenda made progress as Oregon Legislature adjourns • Union
foes file initiative petition to ban card check • Former ATU 757
head Ron Heintzman to take number two post in international • 'Keep
Portland Wired' billboards promote IBEW 48 • O'Connor to retire
from Northwest Oregon Labor Council • Siemens closes; 43 IBEW jobs
lost • NOLC the latest union group to back single payer •
Optimistic Oregon AFL-CIO looks ahead • Sheet Metal 16 re-elects
Phillips business manager
June
19, 2009
Congress close to passing Employee Free Choice Act • Bill bans mandatory
anti-union meetings • CWA launches organizing drive at Oregonian
mailroom • Public employees march • Labor board agrees nursing
home fired Lehr for union activity • Portland City Council pledges
to Buy American • Oregon 'card-check' law hasn't led to increase
in unionizing • Poker Run raises cash for kids • Jon Hunt
wins second term at ATU Local 757 • At IBEW 280, Tim Nicol loses
re-election bid; Caster, Frew in runoff • Rives elected president
of AFT-Oregon
June
5, 2009
What ever happened to retirement? • Unions say Wyden's health care
bill is "sick" • Labor at the table in cap and trade debate
• SEIU's Dale takes job in Geneva; Local 49 names Niemi president
• OPEIU Local 11 members at NW Natural reject contract • Transit
Union says CherryLift strike appears imminent • Vancouver city employees
forego cost-of-living raises for two years • Worker Freedom Act
gets new life in Oregon Legislature • Oregon unionists come up short
in public elections • AFSCME criticizes Portland Police Department
cuts • Mayor reappoints Building Trades leader to PDC • Cecil
Tibbetts returns to AFSCME — in Washington
May
15, 2009
Nursing home worker fired after joining union campaign • Legislature
rattles Washington labor movement • "Buy American" campaign
scores legal successes • Oregon AFL-CIO's top bill, the Worker Freedom
Act, gets shelved in committee • Champions of single payer health
care meet in Portland • Union members running for seats in May 19
special election
May
1, 2009
Campaign at DePaul shows how hard it is to unionize under current U.S.
labor law • Fred Meyer remodels stores nonunion, stymies UFCW in
The Dalles • Rep. Wu doubtful Congress will reform health care system
with single-payer plan • Nurse associations from Oregon and Washington
help launch new union
April
17, 2009
Millions of workers exposed to 'dirty diesel' • SolarWorld gets
tax breaks while dumping union workforce • Retired Painter named
'Firefighter of the Year' • NECA-IBEW, other businesses acknowledged
at Oregon safety forum • Governor to dedicate new Fallen Workers
Memorial
April
3, 2009
Schism widens between labor and Washington Democrats • Asbestos-related
cancer claims labor icon Earl Kirkland • Labor on the scene as Oregon
Legislature reaches halfway mark • More Steelworkers laid off at
Cascade Rolling Mills • Carpenters Local 247 elects Willie Gore
president • Merkley appoints Ed Hall labor liaison • Stacy
Breunig tapped administrator of IAM/Boeing Joint Programs • Labor
protests corporate excess
March
20, 2009
Portland construction crew 'tip' turns into cash for kids • Washington's
top Democrats kill priority labor bill • Teamsters strike ends at
Oak Harbor Freight, but dispute continues • Judge bans Bill Sizemore
from involvement with charities • Multnomah County AFSCME unit approves
wage freeze • University of Portland business students volunteer
to work for union • Oregon retirees alliance elects new officers
March
6, 2009
USW cheers Buy American clause in stimulus package • Weak economy
hits Oregon state budget hard • Washington governor reneges on union
contract, prompting lawsuit • AFSCME 88 offers wage freeze to prevent
Multnomah County layoffs • What's killing U.S. manufacturing? Hint:
It's not what you've been hearing • Q&A with Jeff Merkley •
T-Mobile puts chill on union organizing campaign • Economist tells
Bricklayers Union growing labor movement will boost economy • UA
290 health fair offers medical screenings to members • Ground broken
on Fallen Workers Memorial in Salem • TriMet's new WES train is
a union operation
February
20, 2009
Congress passes stimulus package • Elections Division opens investigation
on Sizemore • SEIU offers wage freeze to ease state budget crisis
• Teamsters at Oak Harbor Freight offer to return to work •
Business-labor group to hold lobby day in Salem for liquefied natural
gas • God may or may not take sides in labor disputes, but 'Father
Bob' does • Al Panek retires; Wyden names Smith Warner new labor
liaison
February
6, 2009
Ironworkers help IBEW 48 go green • Recession deepens, but help
is on the way, elected leaders say • Labor has full plate before
Washington Legislature • Campaign at Oregon bakery shows need for
Employee Free Choice Act • U.S. union ranks grow despite tough economy
• Dennis steps down as president of Carpenters local, regional council
• Labor says replace I-5 bridge now • Labor councils elect
leadership
January
16, 2009
Union jobs cut at Daimler • Boeing to lay off 4,500 workers •
Vancouver Fire Fighters give up wage hikes to help cash-strapped city
coffers • Government solar projects skirt prevailing wage laws •
SEIU demands 'McJustice' • Endicott re-elected business manager
of UA Local 290
January
2, 2009
Labor maps out goals for 2009 Legislature • Workers’ Compensation
Division adopts final rule for medical fees
December
19, 2008
An Oak Harbor Christmas • GOP slams labor, derails auto rescue package
• Bill Sizemore released from jail — but not from legal woes
• Third group of child care workers joins Laborers Local 320
December
5, 2008
Buy union this holiday season – and keep it local • Bill Sizemore
jailed on contempt of court charges • State hospital job off to
a bad start • Organizing drive at Oregon Steel Mills falls short
• Oregon AFL-CIO prioritizes '09 state legislative agenda •
Cash needed to complete Workers Memorial in Salem • Clay takes helm
at UFCW Local 555 • After 32-year career, Pronovost retires from
UFCW Local 555 • Bakers Local 114 re-elects Lansing, Beaudoin, Clark
November
21, 2008
Unions say stimulus package needs cash for infrastructure • Labor
trounces Bill Sizemore proposals … again • Union members made
a difference Nov. 4 • Labor's Election Day scorecard • DHL
closure impacts Oregon Teamsters; layoffs hurt other unions
November
7, 2008
Labor celebrates election night victories • Daimler says 'bye, bye'
to making trucks in Portland • Solidarity leads to new Machinists
contract at Boeing • Steelworkers win extension in card-check
campaign at Oregon Steel • Oregon's largest private-sector union
elects new leaders • Second group of child care workers joins Laborers
320 • Portland passes first 'sweatshop free' ordinance in the Pacific
Northwest • Last 100 years mostly 'up' for Elevator Constructors
• New Apollo program calls for massive investment in green jobs
• UNITE HERE seeks City's help dealing with Vancouver Hilton •
Carpenters Food Bank logs 25 years helping others • Workers' comp
division files proposed rules on medical fees to care providers
October
17, 2008
Carrying the Vote: Union workers handle, count ballots • When Wall
Street stumbles, others pick up the tab • Labor opposes 'top two'
primary • Steelworkers mount union campaign at Oregon Steel
• Union-sponsored Oregon Working Families Party runs candidate on
ballot
October
3, 2008
Turbulence continues between IAM, Boeing • PDC staffers ratify first
union contract • Health insurance preiums rise • America
the Unequal: EPI finds a nation polarizing economically • PDC elects
John Mohlis secretary
September
19, 2008
Job security key in strike by Boeing Machinists • Who's best for
workers: Merkley or Smith? • Labor group steps up campaign to counter
anti-union TV ads
September
5, 2008
Union electrician speaks out about unsafe work in Iraq • Why labor
is getting behind Barack Obama • Oregon Building Trades Council
stays out of U.S. Senate race • In Washington state, labor-backed
candidates make cut in 'Top 2' primary • Labor activists foil plans
for a Portland stop on national anti-union bus tour • Curtain falls
on AFL-CIO Union Industries Show • Permanent Workers' Memorial to
be built at Salem Capitol Mall • Fire Fighters union joins forces
to help returning war veterans find jobs
August
15, 2008
Anti-union ads target Congressional candidates • State of the unions
• Rules change in workers' comp medical fees could harm injured
workers • Oregon unions oppose slew of ballot measures • Washington
AFL-CIO convention focuses on politics • Boeing Machinists take
a strike vote, contract expires Sept. 3 • New contract at Cascade
General; new officers at Metal Trades Council
August
1, 2008
Caregivers of migrant children join Laborers Local 320 • Sizemore
operation faces new forgery allegations • AFL-CIO engaged in Washington's
top-two primary • WSLC to convene in Vancouver • Labor
at table in U.S. plans to slow global warming • Charles Lewis gets
labor council endorsement in Portland city council election • AFSCME
Local 88 endorses Shiprack for Multnomah County Commission • SEIU
Local 49 finalizes contract covering 1,900 Portland janitors • Portland
area grocery pacts expire, UFCW braces for war • Group presses Oregon
to enact 'sweat-free' policy • 'Unity Team' goal is to aid in organizing
July
18, 2008
Vancouver cop reinstated after two years off the job • Oregon Supreme
Court upholds unions' case against Sizemore • Labor helps resuscitate
debate on health care reform • Government agencies okay bridge plan,
but conditions are attached • PDC elects John Mohlis secretary
July
4, 2008
Think it's easy to form a union? Think again • Students replace
full-time Portland school custodians • Workers at Vancouver Hilton
Hotel get first contract with UNITE HERE Local 9 • Legal settlement
returns union organizer to bakery
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